Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology

The alternative certification model is how National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses will be resulted this year, following the cancellation of the 2021 exams. It involves five different stages.

View the alternative certification model and see what will happen at each stage.

Explains the structure of the Course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

• Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology Course Specification
  July 2019

• Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology: Guidance on gathering key evidence in session 2020¿21

This section provides information on marking instructions and/or the coursework assessment task(s). It includes information that centres need to administer coursework and must be read in conjunction with the course specification.

• Coursework Assessment Task for Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology
  May 2019

• Guidance on conditions of assessment

• Coursework for External Assessment

• Webinar overview preparing assessment materials session 2020- 21 (Nov 2020 34 minutes)  (42.16 MB)
• Webinar additional materials setting grid (24 KB)
• Webinar course assessment 2020-21 (Nov 2020 47 minutes) (78.81 MB)
• Webinar addtional materials Question Paper canidate evidence and commentaries (124 KB)
• Webinar additional materials Project candidate evidence and commentaries (1.55 MB)
• Health and Food Technology: Recording Sheet 

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Please note: For session 2020-21 there will be no external assessment for this course. The materials below should therefore be viewed along with the National 5 to Advanced Higher Course information for 2020-21.

Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

• Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

Further examples of candidate evidence and commentaries can be found on the SQA Secure Site. You can access these through your SQA Coordinator

Course assessment overview

• Overview of course assessment - presentation with audio (10 minutes) (11.07 MB)
• Video overview of course assessment from session 2019-20 (30 minutes) (681.55 MB)

Changes to understanding standards materials

• Changes to published Understanding Standards materials for all subjects

Please note: Understanding Standards materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain up to date.

Course Reports

There was no verification activity at this level in 2017.

• 2017 Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology Course Report October 2017
• ¿2018 Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology Course Report September 2018
• 2019 Advanced Higher Health and Food Technology Course Report September 2019

Verification Reports

• Health and Food Technology Qualification Verification Summary Report June 2019

Example of research questions and objectives (20 KB)